Silicate urolithiasis in a paediatric patient

Silicate urolithiasis is rare in humans (0.2%) but common in herbivorous animals. We report a previously unreported instance in India where a pediatric patient with renal pelvic calculus who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy was found to have silicate urolithiasis on stone analysis. Retrospecti...

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Autores principales: Pichandi, Rajarajan, Raamya, Sathish Kumar Motilal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5396407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469307
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.IJU_183_16
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description Silicate urolithiasis is rare in humans (0.2%) but common in herbivorous animals. We report a previously unreported instance in India where a pediatric patient with renal pelvic calculus who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy was found to have silicate urolithiasis on stone analysis. Retrospective analysis did not reveal any risk factors associated with silicate stone formation.
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spelling pubmed-53964072017-05-03 Silicate urolithiasis in a paediatric patient Pichandi, Rajarajan Raamya, Sathish Kumar Motilal Indian J Urol Case Report Silicate urolithiasis is rare in humans (0.2%) but common in herbivorous animals. We report a previously unreported instance in India where a pediatric patient with renal pelvic calculus who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy was found to have silicate urolithiasis on stone analysis. Retrospective analysis did not reveal any risk factors associated with silicate stone formation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5396407/ /pubmed/28469307 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.IJU_183_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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